The Convention on Biological Diversity held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 is popularly known as:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → The Earth Summit
Option (1) The Earth Summit — Correct. The Convention on Biological Diversity met in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is popularly called the Earth Summit. It asked all nations to conserve biodiversity and to use its benefits in a sustainable way.
Option (2) Stockholm Conference — Incorrect. The Stockholm Conference was the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. It was twenty years before the Rio meeting.
Option (3) Rio-20 — Incorrect. The meeting known as Rio+20 was held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, twenty years after the Earth Summit. It is a later meeting, not the 1992 convention.
Option (4) The World Summit on Sustainable Development — Incorrect. This was a later follow-up meeting, in 2002. It was held in Johannesburg, not in Rio, ten years after the convention.
Note: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 26-05-2023 (Slot 3).
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